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Archive: February, 2002

The Insidious Virus of Greedy Record Companies

This speech from the grammy awards is far more succinctly summed up by this image.

Thursday, February 28th, 2002 11:49pm

Thoughtcrime at Dooce.com

This is pretty shocking. Heather Hamilton has lost her job because she keeps an online journal.

Thursday, February 28th, 2002 8:56pm

Have iPod, Will Secretly Bootleg

I know it’s software piracy but I find this hilarious.

Thursday, February 28th, 2002 2:54pm

Silicon Beach

I spent yesterday evening in the company of fellow Brightonites of the new-media persuasion.

Thursday, February 28th, 2002 2:24am

So long, Spike

The last of the Goon’s, Hove’s own Spike Milligan, has passed away.

Wednesday, February 27th, 2002 11:32am

Mac OS X Roadshow

Jessica and I spent the day at the Mac OS X Roadshow which came to town today. Overall, it was pretty good.

Tuesday, February 26th, 2002 11:04pm

A Fair Cop

As I pass by the newsagents on the way to my house, I always enjoy trying to make sense of the curt headlines that are posted outside. "Binmen Lorry Chain Protest" for instance.

Sunday, February 24th, 2002 4:59pm

Web rage hits the internet

This is why it’s important that we build usable, intuitive websites - Web rage:

Saturday, February 23rd, 2002 11:22am

Quest for an iMac

Seems like I’m not the only one who has had trouble trying to get hold of an iMac for a test-drive.

Friday, February 22nd, 2002 10:01pm

Bring on the dancing iMacs

According to this list, one of the things to be avoided in any blog is "your Mac fetish".

Friday, February 22nd, 2002 8:04pm

Ashcroft Invokes Religion In U.S. War on Terrorism

Now America has a faith-based war.

Friday, February 22nd, 2002 12:32pm

Iran nets another revolt

Ben Hammersley’s article about the internet in Iran has been published in The Guardian. It’s a fascinating read.

Thursday, February 21st, 2002 9:40pm

Palindromic Timestamp

20:02, 20/02, 2002

Wednesday, February 20th, 2002 8:02pm

The new Jessica

Not content with ordering a Mac, Jessica has also had her hair cut into a lovely bob. She’s also planning to change hair colour.

Wednesday, February 20th, 2002 1:47pm

Untold History : The History of Flash

Who knew? It was Lego that inspired and influenced the development of Flash.

Wednesday, February 20th, 2002 12:35pm

Ch-ch-ch-changes

I think it’s high time we had a new CSS theme here to brighten the place up a little.

Tuesday, February 19th, 2002 2:00pm

Mac voyeurs

ZDNet has created a monster.

Tuesday, February 19th, 2002 12:04pm

:: design for chunks ::

Normally, online designer showcases involve various digerati designing functionless splash pages.

Monday, February 18th, 2002 1:07am

New and improved

The eagle-eyed amongst you will have noticed a few changes here in the "Journal" section of adactio.

Sunday, February 17th, 2002 6:09pm

Olympic kid: 7-year-old's invention earns trip to Utah

That is one smart kid:

Saturday, February 16th, 2002 11:02am

BBC Winter Olympics 2002 Game

The television is on right now so that Jessica can keep track of what’s happening at the Winter Olympics.

Saturday, February 16th, 2002 12:52am

A Canticle for Leibowitz

My reading matter lately seems to consist entirely of classic science fiction books I haven’t read in years.

Friday, February 15th, 2002 8:53pm

TotL.net Human Virus Scanner

You can keep your Nortons and your McAfees.

Friday, February 15th, 2002 4:35pm

Blog This

Consider it blogged.

Friday, February 15th, 2002 12:56am

Back to school

I just noticed from my referrer logs that this site is listed in the "References" section for a course being taught at Penn State.

Thursday, February 14th, 2002 8:23pm

Geek Love

Awww… isn’t that cute? Commander Taco proposed to his girlfriend on the front page of Slashdot.

Thursday, February 14th, 2002 6:50pm

Move Over, BT: He Invented Links

It’s nice to see that most people seem to share my disgust at British Telecom’s spurious patent on hyperlinks which will probably get laughed out of court.

Thursday, February 14th, 2002 2:43pm

Hefty bill with added insult shocks Telecom customer

This is not the sort of thing you want to see on your ‘phone bill:

Thursday, February 14th, 2002 2:14pm

The Always Amusing Euphemism Generator

Have some fun winding the pork wristwatch.

Tuesday, February 12th, 2002 3:30pm

The new iMac Animations

Here’s a match made in heaven: Pixar have come up with a couple of animated shorts featuring the new iMac

Tuesday, February 12th, 2002 3:25pm

Examples of abuse of the Apostrophe

The Apostrophe Protection Society presents a rogue’s gallery of snaphots depicting some of the worst offenses against the apostrophe.

Tuesday, February 12th, 2002 12:15pm

Java Spectrum Emulator

This is fantastic!

Tuesday, February 12th, 2002 12:02am

Furry Fun

I’ve just come back from seeing Monsters Inc.

Monday, February 11th, 2002 1:14am

Nokia XHTML Browser

This is one of the best arguments I’ve seen so far for coding in XHTML-strict.

Sunday, February 10th, 2002 6:15pm

Stupid Translator

Jessica is going to just love this…

Saturday, February 9th, 2002 7:02pm

BBC - Radio 4 - The Lord of the Rings

It’s Saturday and that means I get to have my weekly dosage of Tolkien taken aurally.

Saturday, February 9th, 2002 5:14pm

Axis of Just As Evil

From SatireWire: "Libya, China, Syria form axis of Just As Evil".

Friday, February 8th, 2002 1:28pm

Patently Absurd

Here’s a great article by science writer, James Gleick on the ludicrous mess that is the US Patent Office: "Patently Absurd".

Friday, February 8th, 2002 1:49am

Geekiness

Hey, Moby’s favourite episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation is also *my* favourite episode.

Thursday, February 7th, 2002 12:10pm

Five Finger Fillet

This is fun in a really gross sort of way: "Five Finger Fillet".

Thursday, February 7th, 2002 11:24am

Stormy Weather

There’s been quite a bit of nasty weather here in England lately (nastier than usual, that is).

Wednesday, February 6th, 2002 1:14am

Journalists to be fined for each mistake in February

It’s the James Brown school of journalism.

Tuesday, February 5th, 2002 11:36am

Deutsche Post

Having lived in Germany for five years, I have experienced one of the most expensive, inept postal service in Europe.

Tuesday, February 5th, 2002 2:11am

BenHammersley.com

Just a quick update to yesterday’s entry. I was chatting with Ben Hammersley earlier and we had a nice talk about syndicating RSS files.

Tuesday, February 5th, 2002 2:02am

Online in Iran

I’m making use of a neat feature on my contact page. There’s a bunch of people willing to provide an online status indicator for AIM, ICQ, MSN, Odigo and Yahoo messenger programs.

Monday, February 4th, 2002 9:27pm

The bleat, the pretzel and the president

One of my all-time favourite websites is lileks.com, home to The Institute Of Official Cheer featuring The Gallery Of Regrettable Food, probably the funniest thing I have ever read on or off the web.

Sunday, February 3rd, 2002 2:02pm

On the Internet, Nobody Knows You're a Dog

Jessica has one of those calendars filled with cartoons from The New Yorker.

Sunday, February 3rd, 2002 12:51pm

020202022002

The time is two minutes past two am, Greenwich Mean Time on the second of February, 2002.

Saturday, February 2nd, 2002 2:02am

CSS resources

I’ve had a couple of emails from people asking for some good CSS resources. Here are my recommendations:

Saturday, February 2nd, 2002 12:45am

More tinkering with themes

In a previous entry, I was lamenting the fact that each of my themes relies on two different stylesheets which effectively rules out using an on-the-fly style switcher.

Friday, February 1st, 2002 11:10pm